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author | Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> | 2007-08-20 08:36:29 -0400 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2007-10-12 17:51:07 -0400 |
commit | 253280267a7f1ced0c434fb24b7bef92d7d22628 (patch) | |
tree | 8add8daefa3cf776daf7f042cb9341debafe54f1 /fs/sysfs | |
parent | 1359555eb77d240b7c1d7ee75bb07e89e89770e4 (diff) |
sysfs: fix i_mutex locking in sysfs_get_dentry()
lookup_one_len_kern() should be called with the parent's i_mutex
locked. Fix it.
Spotted by Eric W. Biederman.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/dir.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index a0da2b05a754..54ca4bc02dcf 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c | |||
@@ -130,8 +130,10 @@ struct dentry *sysfs_get_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent *sd) | |||
130 | 130 | ||
131 | /* look it up */ | 131 | /* look it up */ |
132 | parent_dentry = dentry; | 132 | parent_dentry = dentry; |
133 | mutex_lock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); | ||
133 | dentry = lookup_one_len_kern(cur->s_name, parent_dentry, | 134 | dentry = lookup_one_len_kern(cur->s_name, parent_dentry, |
134 | strlen(cur->s_name)); | 135 | strlen(cur->s_name)); |
136 | mutex_unlock(&parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); | ||
135 | dput(parent_dentry); | 137 | dput(parent_dentry); |
136 | 138 | ||
137 | if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { | 139 | if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { |